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Editorial

Screening for aortic abdominal aneurysm in New Zealand

Ross Lawrenson

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Original Articles

Abdominal aortic aneurysm disease in New Zealand: epidemiology and burden between 2002 and 2006

Nisha Nair, Caroline Shaw, Diana Sarfati, James Stanley

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Funding community medicines by exception: a descriptive epidemiological study from New Zealand

Dilky Rasiah, Richard Edwards, Peter Crampton

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Blinded randomised controlled study of the effect of a discharge communication template on proton pump inhibitor prescribing

Alex Lampen-Smith, Janice Young, Mary-Anne O’Rourke, Astuti Balram, Stephen Inns

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A review of interferon use in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis in the Canterbury region, New Zealand: 2000–2006

Susan Byrne, Deborah Mason

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Incidental vertebral fractures on computed tomography

Pui Ling Chan, Taryn Reddy, David Milne, Mark J Bolland

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Predictors of intent to vaccinate against HPV/cervical cancer: a multi-ethnic survey of 769 parents in New Zealand

Sally B Rose, Beverley A Lawton, Tolotea S Lanumata, Merilyn Hibma, Michael G Baker

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Cases of cutaneous diphtheria in New Zealand: implications for surveillance and management

Ann Sears, Margot McLean, David Hingston, Barbara Eddie, Pat Short, Mark Jones

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Review Article

Population screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm: evaluating the evidence against screening criteria

Nisha Nair, Diana Sarfati, Caroline Shaw

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Viewpoint

The NEEDNT Food List: non-essential, energy-dense, nutritionally-deficient foods

Jane L Elmslie, J Douglas Sellman, Ria N Schroder, Frances A Carter

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Clinical Correspondence

A case of cutaneous diphtheria in New Zealand

David C R McGouran, Stanley K F Ng , Mark R Jones, David Hingston

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Medical image: a case of acro-osteolysis

Alka Sharma, Vishal Sharma

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Letters

PHARMAC has no cost-effectiveness threshold

Scott Metcalfe, Alexander Rodgers, Rachel Werner, Carsten Schousboe

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The importance of vitamin D: a response to the article by Bolland and colleagues

William Ferguson

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BPAC recertification plan and the Medical Council

Humphrey B Rainey

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The ethics of care

Anna Holmes

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Relative risk according to the proportion of a population deemed to be at high risk after risk factor analysis: a correction

J Alasdair Millar

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Comment on “ACC response on rotator cuff tears”

David Wadsworth

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Comment on “Under-use of secondary prevention medication” article by Looi and colleagues

Pat McIntosh

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Hands-only CPR

Robin M Norris, Kevin P O'Brien

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Perioperative results in the Canterbury pilot programme of public-funded weight loss surgery

Richard Flint, Debbie Osborn, Grant Coulter, Steven Kelly, Ross Roberts

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

A case of rupture of the liver

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Medical History

The Cockroft and Gault formula for estimation of creatinine clearance: a friendly deconstruction

J Alasdair Millar

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituary

Alan Bernard Howard Howes

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